After reading BFI’s LGBT list, responding to it, and running up against some of the contradictions and assumptions in the conceptualizations of both, I think it’s about time I answered one question, at least for the purpose of this blog, and at least for...

It’s more than a little weird to me that although over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers voted on the 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time, there’s not a surprise on it. I appreciate the inclusion of Portrait of Jason and Genet’s Un chant...

I’ve been railing a lot on Twitter about how so many popular, mainstream film critics sound just like marketers. The most egregious and ubiquitous examples of these sorts of adverb-dominated ad-copy can be discovered just by randomly picking a...

I don’t read a lot of film criticism. Robin Wood inspired me to become one of the first out gay critics in Indianapolis — I don’t know but I may have been the first — and, like a real fanboy, I’ve followed Jonathan Rosenbaum‘s work...

Point #2: There is no “we.” One of my pet peeves as a writer and a reader is the employment of the Royal We. I’ve had this bias against writers who use it ever since I was experienced enough to think I could teach someone else a thing or two about...

Here they are: No one knows what’s important There is no “we” Context, identity and affinities matter The essence of cinema lives between your ears Nobody’s perfect Films make memories No one knows what’s important One thing I’ve...